I'm a photographer and my fiance' loves photography also. I think it's a cake that will express who we are and since we're having a private ceremony the day before, we'll be able to show off the wedding pictures at the big reception which will be the next day. I have a photo printer but I was wondering, shouldn't the photos be in a plastic covering of some sort?, I wouldn't want photos attached to my cake like that because of the ink.
Has anyone ever done this before? what do you think of the idea?
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8 months ago
Okay, to clarify, the photos will be taken off before anyone eats it! It will be an hour into the reception before we do the cake cut and toast, so meanwhile, people can just look at the wedding photos as that pass by.
Thanks to the rest of you for the answers so far.
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1.most of the time, whoever makes the cake, adds the photo to the cake with a special process...no ink, no paper, no nothing...just the image "iced" onto the cake. they do it with cakes at the grocery store where i work and thats what it looks like was done in that link you provided. whoever is making yalls cake should be able to give you a better idea. good luck!
2.I like the idea. Some of the grocery stores around here put photos on cakes. It is on a "material" of some type. I wonder if you talked to your local grocery stores to see if they did this type of work, if they could just put your photos on the "material" for you to add to your cake? I wish you many years of happiness
3.Actually, those photos are probably not printed on paper. Cake decorators do this using a special "printer" that uses a thin "paper" and "ink" that is actually edible icing!
Of course, you probably don't want to spend that kind of money just for one cake - so if you are doing it yourself, you can get photo sleeves at scrapbooking stores - plastic sleeves that are used to protect special photos in layouts. They are made to fit standard photo sizes perfectly, and would work very well for this cake.
The cake looks like a fondant icing - so to attach the photos, you would use a small bit of royal icing on the back of the sleeve, which will stick it to the cake, and then the icing borders will add some extra hold once applied.
4.The picture of the cake is too cute! I was skeptical at first, but once I looked at the example, I like it ALOT!
However, I'm not sure how the pictures are applied or how your bakery does this! I have had a cake done before and the picture was transfered onto the cake, no paper, the picture is scanned into the computer and printed out with food coloring for the ink and then applied to the icing! It is all edible! I don't know the time frame that the bakery would need to produce those images, you would have to talk to them for specifics!
check out www.ambrosiabakery.com
this is the bakery that I had my cake done, they describe the process of transferring the pics to the icing! Maybe this could help you! Congrats and good luck!
Cake Decorating - Step by Step
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